Publications

2022

Training Computational Models of Group Processes without Groundtruth: the Self- vs External Assessment’s Dilemma. Maman, L., Volpe, G. Varni, G. Accepted for publication In Companion Publication of the 2022 24rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2022.

An Exploratory Study on Group Potency Classification from Non-verbal Social Behaviours. Corbellini, N. Ceccaldi, E., Varni, G., Volpe, G. In the Adjunct Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2022.

2021

Using Valence Emotion to Predict Group Cohesion’s Dynamics: Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches. Maman, L., Chetouani M., Likforman-Sulem, L. and Varni, G. In Proceedings of 2021 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2021.

Exploiting the Interplay between Social and Task Dimensions of Cohesion to Predict its Dynamics Leveraging Social Sciences. Maman, L., Likforman-Sulem, L., Chetouani, M., Varni, G. In Proceedings of the 23rd 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), pp. 16-24, 2021. Best paper award.

An Exploratory Computational Study on the Effect of Emergent Leadership on Social and Task Cohesion. Sabry, S., Maman, L., Varni, G. In Companion Publication of the 2021 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), pp. 263-272, 2021.

Get Together in the Middle-earth: a First Step Towards Hybrid Intelligence Systems. Varni, G., Pez, A.M., Mancini, M. In Companion Publication of the 2021 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), pp. 249-253, 2021.

2020

GAME-ON: A Multimodal Dataset for Cohesion and Group Analysis. Maman, L., Ceccaldi, E., Lehmann-Willenbrock, N., Likforman-Sulem, L., Chetouani, M., Volpe, G., and Varni, G. IEEE Access, 8, pp.124185-124203, 2020.

Modeling Dynamics of Task and Social Cohesion from the GroupPerspective Using Nonverbal Motion Capture-based Features. Walocha, F., Maman, L., Chetouani, M., Varni, G. In Companion Publication of the 2020 22th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), pp. 182-190, 2020.

Workshop on Interdisciplinary Insights into Group and Team Dynamics. Hung, H., Murray, G., Varni, G., Lehmann-Willenbrock, N., Gerpott, F.H., Oertel, C. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2020.

GRACE: Un projet portant sur l’étude automatique de la cohésion dans les petits groupes d’humains. Maman, L. and Varni, G. In Proceedings of Workshop sur les Affects, Compagnons Artificiels et Interactions (WACAI), 2020.

Multimodal Groups’ Analysis for Automated Cohesion Estimation. Maman, L. Doctoral Consortium ACM ICMI2020. In Proceedings of the 2020 22th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), pp. 713-717, 2020.

2019

How unitizing affects annotation of cohesion. Ceccaldi, E., Lehmann-Willenbrock, N., Volta, E., Chetouani, M., Volpe, G., and Varni, G. In Proceedings of 2019 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2019.